Sorry, just realized ms loopback was only on NT. You are stuck with adding a NIC to your machine to have TCP bound to something at all times. NIC does not need to work, it just needs to be able to be loaded. Speed does not matter either. Any old nic will do (even an old token ring would work.)
BTW, in the simplest (at the expense of complete correctness) way, tcp is the network protocol that is responible for the "localhost" connection you are trying to accomplish. The web server provides the pages on tcp port 80. If you do not have the protocol installed (ie no network adaptor (NIC), or dial up adaptor that has an IP address (ie you have logged into your isp and received an ip address via dhcp), there is no port 80. In addition to that, there is no localhost without tcp because localhost is nothing more than a local loopback connection at ip address 127.0.0.1. Without an adaptor of some kind (either dial up or nic) then no protocol is available at all. If your isp will give you a static address, then you could enter that in your dial up adaptor settings and that would work. If they do not give you a static address, then you cannot put an address in there. Because it is Win98, you have to restart the machine every time you make changes to the network settings so it is not viable to change the dial up adaptor every time. Also, Win98 shares the dial up settings amoungst all the dial up adaptors, so adding another one in and setting it to static ip would not work. Doug -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of gordon Stewart Sent: August 17, 2002 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sambar] Localhost... {04} At 18:29 17/08/02 -0400, you wrote: >I think the proper way is to set your connection option in Internet >Settings to something like dial only when needed. If you only have one >machine and no network card, it may decide that localhost (127.0.0.1) >does not exist and therefore dials out. Localhost was not intended for >no network, it was intended for local use only, but still requires TCP >to be present. Without a NIC, no TCP is present. Adding a NIC and >binding TCP to it would get around it for sure though. > >doug How do I do that ? - im no techie... in regards to whaT TCP is etc... G. ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
